This blog originated as a futile effort to expose ineffective and harmful programs and practices as it pertains to animal cruelty, dog fighting, animal welfare, wildlife protection and conservation. A number of nonprofit organizations, individuals and others profit handsomely from their exploitation of voiceless populations.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Oil Funded Islamic Fanaticism And Nuclear Proliferation
When 9-11 happened, the world was in crisis. The American president at that time told people to go on as usual, and keep shopping. And the west has been doing that since 9-11, even before 9-11, shopping and ignoring the pending doom that oil is bringing. Not just in the form of climate change, but something far worse and far greater of a threat. Americans went to war against the Taliban, Saudi sponsored and controlled Islamists, and now are stuck in Afghanistan over 15 years later, having lost lives, treasury, limbs. All of this could have been avoided if only American leadership stepped back and thought this out and proceeded wisely. Why does the west fight in unwinnable war and against the terrorism the Islamic oil producing nations produce, and yet the west not only ignores, but finances through oil purchases the very countries that create these wars and terrorism? Oil wealth has funded, courtesy of the oil rich Islamic nations, the "schooling", brainwashing and indoctrination of millions of children worldwide that are taught intolerance, fanaticism, violent jihad. They are eager to kill and die, believing they will be transported to a magical kingdom in the sky where god happily greets murderers. This religious intolerance and fanaticism will not leave the oil rich nations unaffected. It will eventually collapse the world economies and bring murder and chaos everywhere - as if there is not already enough poverty and suffering in this world - and all prosperity will end. And that is the easy part. It is only a question of time now before there is the marriage of nuclear weapons and Islamic fanaticism, at which time there will be incredible suffering on this planet and it will be the beginning of the end of human life. All of this can be stopped. But not if the proliferation of fanaticism and nuclear weapon continues.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Trump- The World Does Not Need Saudi Troops To Fight ISIS, It Needs Something Far More Important
Donald Trump wants the United States to stop buying Saudi oil unless the Saudis contribute troops in the war against ISIS. So here is a quick reality check that seems to be missing (and that George Bush - safe in a lucrative retirement, unless there is an opportunity to make an easy quarter of a million dollars or more in speaking fees to a group such as Wounded Veterans of America - ignored). Saudi and Qatar promote a literal, intolerant, fundamentalist version of Islam. ISIS, practices a literal, fundamentalist, intolerant version of Islam. The Saudis and Qataris, with their vast wealth, have been promoting all over the world through their schools, mosques, educators, state sponsored media outlet, and so forth, their intolerant, hardcore, rigid, bigoted, brand of Islam, crushing in the wake all forms of Islam that practice moderation, toleration and nonviolence. It is known who funds and educates Sunni violent jihadist groups, and who funds and supports Shia terror (and the one Sunni violent jihadist group that is supported by all). All voices of nonviolence, tolerance and moderation, in the Muslim world must be supported, which is the complete opposite of what the Saudis and Qataris have been doing. The millions of children getting Saudi/Qatar sponsored educations right now ensures that the hell that ISIS offers, even if ISIS is completely destroyed, will continue.
The Saudi/Qatar Poisoned Gift That Keeps On Poisoning- Easter Massacre Of Christians In Pakistan
Yesterday on Easter Sunday in Pakistan, at a holiday gathering in a children's park, Christians celebrated the Easter holiday. A bomb was set off, perhaps by a suicide bomber(this has not yet been determined), killing at least 65 people and wounding over 300 people. A branch of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, proud of their murderous accomplishment. Who funds and supports the Pakistani and Afghani Taliban? Who was the major financier and supporter of the Taliban regime when it was in power in Afghanistan? What extremely rich nations, made rich by the oil that lies beneath their ground, have spread a worldwide network of mosques, schools and madrases, in which children and people of all ages are taught the supremacy of Islam, the inferiority of the non Muslim, the sub-humanness of certain non Muslim religions, the importance of violent jihad ( waging war and armed struggle on behalf of Islam and its expansion)? The average child in Pakistan goes to a Saudi sponsored school where the "education" is nothing more than the Quran and the Saudi version of Islam. Between Saudi/Qatar on the Sunni side, and Iran on the Shia side, diversity, toleration and moderation in the Islamic world is becoming less and less. There is no shortage of brainwashed people eager to kill, and children now being indoctrinated by Saudi/Qatar on the Sunni side, and Iran on the Shia side, that will ensure many more years of senseless, mindless cruelty and war. It is not enough to seek out the murderous cowards responsible for the Easter holiday slaughter of Christians. We need to wake up to who supports, funds, educates, and even arms, these violent worldwide jihadist organizations.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Blaming Israel And Jews For Wars, Violence And Terrorism In The Islamic World
There are those who blame the violence and extremism emanating from the Muslim world on the unresolved conflict between Arab Palestinians and Israelis, or on Jews themselves. It is pointless to indulge the hatred of weak people that need a scapegoat or simple minded answer to complicated problems, but at the same time, propaganda that defies logic and promotes hate needs to be countered. Long before there ever was an Israel, there was the violent expansion of Islam throughout much of the world. Christianity also violently expanded, and between these two largest religions of the world, millions of people were slaughtered, enslaved, forced to convert, and the cultures, languages and religions of thousands of indigenous people were wiped out. Thankfully, Christianity long ago reformed itself, and forced conversion and church sanctioned violence and killings of non Christians stopped. Islam, desperately in need of reform, has yet to have its own reformation. To this very day, the violent expansion of Islam continues. People debate whether this violence comes from the Quran itself and other Islamic holy books, or from Muslim leaders and religious figures that are teaching violence and intolerance. While this debate goes on, the killing rages. Violent jihad itself, forced conversions, and the acceptance of intolerance and bigotry, regardless of where it comes from, must be completely rejected if humanity has any chance of surviving. If there is a widespread rejection in the Islamic world of violent Jihad and religious intolerance and bigotry, most of the wars and conflicts in this world will stop. Most of these wars and conflicts have nothing to do with Jews, or with Israel, regardless of how much the Jew haters or Israel haters would like us to think otherwise. Long before there ever as an Israel, there was violent conflict in parts of Mindanao in the Philippines that continues to this day, and has taken the lives of untold thousands. In south Thailand, Muslims have killed thousands of civilians in their war against the Buddhist majority. War rages in Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, and many other places, in which Muslims are killing Muslims and/or non Muslims. Islamists are destroying middle east religious minorities like Yazidis, Christians, Bahais and others.There is genocide in Darfur by the Sudanese government against black African Muslims. Whenever, in the history of mankind, a religion sanctions and promotes religious violence and intolerance and bigotry, the result has always been exactly what it is the world is witnessing today- deliberate attacks against unarmed civilian populations and widespread war and terror. We now see this religious inspired terrorism all over Europe, Africa, the middle east, Asia, and more. Regarding Israel, if there is the rejection of violence, especially the deliberate attacks against civilians, and the goal is Palestinian statehood, not the establishment of an Islamic state on the ashes of a destroyed Israel, Palestinian statehood will happen shortly thereafter. Many Jews in the world will do everything they can to help Palestinian Arabs have not only statehood, but a Palestinian state that prospers, if they know statehood is the goal, not Jew killing and their own extermination. Philippines(south Mindanao) south Thailand, Israel, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Kenya, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, and many other places, can be resolved when people stop killing in the name of religion.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Man Made Religions and Holy Books- Religion Can Uplift, But Can Also Be Poison
In the short span of my lifetime, there has been the serious depletion of the things I value most. I always valued nature, which is something humans cannot create and seem determined to destroy. I never had an interest in religion. I would rather be in a forest, or at the ocean, or in a wilderness area somewhere, than inside of a building praying or studying. I find the presence of God, or a higher spiritual power, in the natural world, not in the buildings and structures humans create. Religion should not be mindless conformity and blind surrender to the thoughts and beliefs of another. There is not a religious book on this planet that I do not think is man made, whether it is the New Testament, Old Testament, Quran, or any other book that a religion might follow. This does not mean that if a person follows one of these books, or believes it is the word of God, there is anything wrong. There is only something wrong if following a religion, or a religious book, becomes an excuse or a reason to hate and be intolerant and violent towards others. Religion can uplift mankind, but it can also be pure poison, as the world is learning only too well as religious intolerance and hatred spreads like wildfire. Far too many are willing to kill and harm others of different faiths, religions and beliefs.
A child of today will be lucky to see the things in nature I was able to see in my lifetime. And I was not able to see things in nature a person thirty years my senior could see. Gone are many of the vast rain forests, oceans rich with diverse and large marine life, large tracts of unspoiled land in all kinds of habitats. Humanity cannot survive in an unhealthy environment, so that protecting our environment, even if we could care less about nature, ultimately protects ourselves. The world will do far better with less religious intolerance, bigotry and fanaticism. We should be concerned with what we conserve and bequeath to the children of the future, and ensure it is not our hatreds.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Statehood And Independence For The Kurdish People
The boundaries and nations of the middle east and other places, including in Africa, were arbitrarily created by former colonial powers concerned with protecting their own economic interests. Rulers, including kings and kingdoms, were placed in power to protect these interests. The world is stuck with badly drawn nations, which have contributed to countless wars. Over 99 per cent of the middle east and North Africa have been given to Arab Muslims. Nothing for the Kurds, who are mostly Muslim but not fanatical Islamist, nothing for the Christians of the middle east except Lebanon, which has now been taken over by Iran and its proxy army Hezbollah, and a tiny state for Jews which is still under attack over 60 years after its creation. It is time to right a historic wrong, and give the Kurdish people independence. The Kurds are at the forefront of the battle against ISIS. The Kurdish controlled areas, now under Kurdish self rule, are one of the few places in the middle east where there is moderation and freedom. It is time for the long standing oppression of Kurds to end, and for this ignored and downtrodden people to receive what they have long been denied- nationhood.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Yazidis, Front Line Victims Of Religious Intolerance And Genocide By Islamists
Many in the world do not know the Yazidis, ethnic Kurds and followers of one of the world's oldest religions. Followers of one of the world's newest religions decided that because of what is written in their holy book, permission was given to raid Yazidi villages, kill the men, healthy and handicapped, and take the children and women as slaves. Yazidi boys taken hostage are now converted and forced to join the ISIS demented Islamist army. Girls, children, are being raped daily and are now the sex slaves to these demented Islamists, who think raping children is permissible by God/Allah. Young women, by the thousands, are now the slaves of these demented Islamists. Some women have escaped. Many are in their captors hands, and are being raped daily. The Kurds, most of whom are Muslim, are at the forefront of the war against the demented Islamists. The Kurds fighting ISIS are an example of the best in humanity, the best in Islam and the best in all the religions they follow. We should be asking now, not waiting for the day when there is no ISIS, why the world accepts the diet of hate and bigotry that pours in from the Islamic world and produces demented Islamists by the boatload. The Yazidis did not bother anyone. It was evil that came knocking down their doors. And it is evil men and women holding the helpless Yazidis as slaves here in the 21st century.
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